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To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.

arten; to daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value.

The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.

An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

assengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins.

A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.

e mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.

ed with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton.

triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimney or wall, to throw off the rain. Gwilt. -- Arris gutter, a gutter of a V form fixed to the eaves of a building. Gwilt.

direction toward an object or end; as, look at it; to point at one; to aim at a mark; to throw, strike, shoot, wink, mock, laugh at any one. At all, At home, At large, At last, At length, At once, etc. See under All, Home, Large, Last (phrase and syn.), Length, Once, etc. -- At it, busily or actively engaged. -- At…

assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.

and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

To occasion; to originate. [Obs.] Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. Chapman.

To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

as fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. Backgammon board , a board for playing backgammon, often made in the form of two rectangular trays hinged together, each tray containing two "tables".